The idea of New Learning, that includes diversity and globalization, as well as technology innovations and a different approach to the design of learning, that is, education; has a starting point that one can recognize as change. Traditional academic communities and curriculum usually state a pedagogy but do not necessarily stand by it. Documents, syllabus and a large etc., are usually there for no one to read. They have become a requisite for accreditation purposes, but many teachers and students live their university experience in a very different way.

This, however, does not suggest that we should go back to Plato's academy where knowledge was shared with no curriculum or pedagogy, but to recognize change, disruption and innovation in education. New learning does not imply the end of teachers or of teaching, but a new path towards designing learning, were the teacher plays a key role as a guide that offers multiple options and new questions and ways to find and organize information. Logic and science are very important, but the difference between them must be properly understood, as Sartori would say regarding Political Science.

New learning is also related with freedom, and in this allow me to suggest, the double contingence of power in Niklas Luhman's approach is key. Learning is a natural thing for human beings, but education implies designed learning. However, this must not be understood as teachers sharing knowledge with students. Rather, it means sharing questions, anecdotes, information, and many ways to understand their importance and how to build from them. If we assume that we are, in effect, in a Knowledge economy, and agree with Michael Peters and his three modes of Learning economy, creative economy and openness; then we must definitely be certain that traditional restrictions in curriculum are to be questioned, if not deleted.

A very daring statement by David Helfang comes to my mind: "Education today is excellent preparation for a job... in the nineteenth century" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLJKo-gpUy8). Many things have changed in the world, and technology is sky rocketing, but for some strange reason universities are yet to be strongly disrupted. Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring wrote a book about this, The Innovative University, comparing Brigham Young University- Idaho- with Harvard, expressing that "the demise of the incumbents that characterizes most industries in the late stages of disruption has rarely occurred among colleges and universities" (2011).

There is a traditional model of universities that is resisting change, now migrating to online platforms, but without really understanding what new learning means and needs.

One learns about democracy and becomes a citizen; one learns about freedom and tolerance. These are things that should not be written in the whiteboard, only to be copied into a notebook and forgotten. New learning is a challenge, probably the most important one we face today if we really want to live in a free and democratic world.